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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Thu Oct 24, 2013, 04:13 PM Oct 2013

Most Of FreedomWorks 2012 Money Came From Four Secret Donors

Source: TPM

ERIC LACH – OCTOBER 24, 2013, 4:01 PM EDT

FreedomWorks had its best fundraising year ever in 2012, taking in $15 million, thanks in large part to four unnamed donors who accounted for nearly 60 percent of the group's funding, The Center for Public Integrity reported on Thursday.

The numbers come from an annual tax report FreedomWorks filed earlier this year. The document shows that the four unnamed contributors donated at least $1 million each, including one who gave nearly $4.9 million.

According to The Center for Public Integrity, 106 unnamed donors gave the FreedomWorks at least $5,000 each in 2012.

From The Center for Public Integrity:

The IRS documents detail millions of dollars spent in 2012 on “public education,” “events,” tracking “legislation on Capitol Hill” and alerting “members when issues of interest become relevant.


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Most Of FreedomWorks 2012 Money Came From Four Secret Donors (Original Post) DonViejo Oct 2013 OP
how do we know these secret donors aren't foreign governments elehhhhna Oct 2013 #1
hmmmm.... could be . . . annabanana Oct 2013 #2
Republicon OCCULTISM. Ever notice how everything the Cons do is 'secret' Berlum Oct 2013 #3
How much of it was stolen in Iraq? Coyotl Oct 2013 #4
 

elehhhhna

(32,076 posts)
1. how do we know these secret donors aren't foreign governments
Thu Oct 24, 2013, 04:53 PM
Oct 2013

or the frikkin Bin Laden family, for that matter?

Berlum

(7,044 posts)
3. Republicon OCCULTISM. Ever notice how everything the Cons do is 'secret'
Thu Oct 24, 2013, 05:30 PM
Oct 2013

Republicons are full-on OCCULTISTS, hiding or spinning their dark side evil shit in the hopes that Americans will not grasp the truth.

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